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[SopelFanThe3rd]

for some reason it doesn't look like Jake.

 

[SelltheTeamFrancesco]

I really don’t care who we play. Don’t be a Leaf fan.

Honestly after the last decade we should just be happy we are playing and enjoy it.

 

[racerjoe]

At this point, there's too many names and faces...You may as well draw up a landfill featuring Benning's crap signings and mistakes with diaper hill being OEL.

Don't worry @Jyrki21. I'm not requesting it.

Better if we changed it to a last supper of Benning....

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

i think sutter and gudbranson represent the same thing (identifying middling "high character" aka square jaw canadians with not much talent, as "foundational" players) so i'd pull one of them

oel represents the same thing as eriksson - god awful pro scouting and placing a premium on the wrong player based off of reputation

virtanen is the pinnacle of the amateur scouting blunders - an absolute brainless dick head, both on and off the ice

we're missing a pillar still; the clown show that was somehow considered a front office for a $800m organization. this could be benning himself (with an hm to chris gear), but assuming he isn't on there, there's only one other person who can be the face of the subban tampering, running out of time at the deadline, the hemorrhaging of talent (brackett, gilman, etc.), overruling scouts, terrible media relations, etc.

my final four: sutter, oel, virtanen, weisbrod

i think the fourth pillar is clendening

overpaying for someone else’s busting prospect when you could just wait a few months (in some cases probably a few days) and pick him up on waivers for free

vey, pedan, pou, arguably baertschi although he at least was decent before he got hurt

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

I'll be at the Flames/Knights game tonight on the glass. Hoping Hanifin gets booed and there's a bunch of drama for me to neutrally enjoy haha

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

I'll be at the Flames/Knights game tonight on the glass. Hoping Hanifin gets booed and there's a bunch of drama for me to neutrally enjoy haha

Sounds like your average Pylons game to me

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

i think the fourth pillar is clendening

overpaying for someone else’s busting prospect when you could just wait a few months (in some cases probably a few days) and pick him up on waivers for free

vey, pedan, pou, arguably baertschi although he at least was decent before he got hurt

who is Pou? I forgot about Pedan lol

 

[Jerry the great]

who is Pou? I forgot about Pedan lol

derrick pouliot?

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

derrick pouliot?

oh yah he was terrible.

Not Gragnani bad but close.

 

[I am toxic]

Mount Rushmore is not big enough to display Benning's monumental stupidity.

There was a pantheon of horrid acquisitions, only Mount Olympus could accommodate them all.

 

[Aphid Attraction]

There are 12 games happening today around the league.

 

[LemonSauceD]

Not really afraid of Vegas as much as many here. Mantha sucks. Hanifin/Petro is scary but Theodore/Whitecloud/Martinez/Hertl/Stone will be coming back from injuries. Stone with a ruptured spleen I’d be shocked even plays in the first round considering how serious that injury is and will for sure be rushed if he does play. The rest will be rusty and will take awhile to get up to speed especially playoff hockey.

Nashville I haven’t really followed at all.

LA doesn’t even concern me.

Only team that concerns me is the Avs and McDavid in beast mode.

 

[Bobby9]

Point is so clutch.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Point and Kucherov were everywhere, seemed like they played every other shift.
Perbix absolute dog water this game.

 

[EpochLink]

Detroit is ass, on top of ass

 

[arttk]

Detroit is ass, on top of ass

Yzerplan ™

 

[wonton15]

We’re playing Vegas who will have Stone back in round 1 aren’t we

 

[NoShowWilly]

Spicy oot scoreboard tonight.

 

[canuckking1]

Vegas is looking as vulnerable as they've ever been. It might not be horrible playing them in the first round as they shuffle a bunch of bodies into the lineup right in the playoffs

 

[Jyrki]

Knights have to play the Wild twice before the end of the season... still a small chance they don't make into the playoffs before they can summon the dead from their tombs.

 

[canuckking1]

Caps sneaking into the playoffs would be hilarious

 

[valkynax]

What happens if, however unlikely it may be, VGK misses playoffs? Will they be forced to move out caps?

Byram has been doing well since TDL.

And Detroit got destroyed by...Arizona??

Lots of intriguing results tonight.

 

[F A N]

oh yah he was terrible.

Not Gragnani bad but close.

I don't think Pouliot was terrible. He's one of those players who is a bit too slow in processing the game at NHL speeds so he's prone to some bad turnovers when pressured. He would probably be ok on a good team with good structure. Gragnani can't play D at all and you have to shelter him.

 

[JT Milker]

I don't think Pouliot was terrible. He's one of those players who is a bit too slow in processing the game at NHL speeds so he's prone to some bad turnovers when pressured. He would probably be ok on a good team with good structure. Gragnani can't play D at all and you have to shelter him.

Pouliot was horrible and played himself out of the NHL.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Pouliot was horrible and played himself out of the NHL.

I mean, he still played in the NHL. He's a thousand times better at hockey than anyone reading this reply. Unless an NHLer is. Or like, a really, really good AHLer.